EP2207238B1 - Kleine Niederleistungsvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP2207238B1
EP2207238B1 EP09150234.4A EP09150234A EP2207238B1 EP 2207238 B1 EP2207238 B1 EP 2207238B1 EP 09150234 A EP09150234 A EP 09150234A EP 2207238 B1 EP2207238 B1 EP 2207238B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/12—Supports; Mounting means
    • H01Q1/22—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles
    • H01Q1/24—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set
    • H01Q1/241—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM
    • H01Q1/242—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM specially adapted for hand-held use
    • H01Q1/243—Supports; Mounting means by structural association with other equipment or articles with receiving set used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM specially adapted for hand-held use with built-in antennas
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/273—Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/36—Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewith
    • H01Q1/38—Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewith formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q15/00—Devices for reflection, refraction, diffraction or polarisation of waves radiated from an antenna, e.g. quasi-optical devices
    • H01Q15/0006—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices
    • H01Q15/0086—Devices acting selectively as reflecting surface, as diffracting or as refracting device, e.g. frequency filtering or angular spatial filtering devices said selective devices having materials with a synthesized negative refractive index, e.g. metamaterials or left-handed materials
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q9/00—Electrically-short antennas having dimensions not more than twice the operating wavelength and consisting of conductive active radiating elements
    • H01Q9/04—Resonant antennas
    • H01Q9/0407—Substantially flat resonant element parallel to ground plane, e.g. patch antenna

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  • the invention relates to a small size, low-power device comprising a patch antenna adapted for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic radiation in a predefined frequency range.
  • the invention may e.g. be useful in applications such as for establishing a wireless interface in a portable communication device.
  • Performance degradation such as a lower efficiency and a narrower bandwidth are expected when the physical size of an antenna becomes much smaller than the operating wavelength. As this is the case for most antennas operating in hearing aids or in similar SRD (Short Range Device) applications It is of great importance to optimize the antenna efficiency in order to keep the power consumption low. This is equally important as minimizing the size, so improving the efficiency of the antennas used in size critical battery operated instruments will result in a decrease in power consumption and a longer battery life Challenges of antenna miniaturization ara e.g reviewed by [Skrivervik et al., 2001].
  • WO 2005/081583 discloses a hearing aid, especially ITE and CIC type hearing aids, wherein wireless reception and transmission means are provided.
  • an antenna for radiating and/or receiving electromagnetic energy is provided such that it has a first surface turned towards the surroundings and a second surface located in close proximity of the battery.
  • the battery is utilised as a ground plane for the antenna.
  • a "short range device” is in the present context taken to mean a device capable of communicating with another device over a relatively short range, e.g. less than 50 m, such as less than 20 m, such as less than 5 m, such as less than 2 m or in a sense as used in tha ERC Recommendation 70-03, 30 May 2008 ([ERC/REC 70-03]).
  • an SRD according to the present invention is adapted to comply with [ERC/REC 70-03].
  • the present invention deals in particular with performance optimization of antennas for wireless systems in hearing aids and similar size critical applications by utilizing a material (e.g. a meta-material) exhibiting a negative permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity ⁇ (ENG) or both (DNG) (at least in a part of the frequency range) in the design.
  • a material e.g. a meta-material
  • MNG negative permeability ⁇
  • ENG permittivity ⁇
  • DNG both
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a small size, low power device comprising a patch antenna.
  • a small size, low power device comprising a patch antenna adapted for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic radiation in a predefined frequency range.
  • the patch antenna comprises a first patch comprising an electrically conductive material and having an upper and lower face, the first patch being supported on its lower face by an intermediate material, and the intermediate material comprising first and second different materials, at least one material having a negative magnetic permeability and/or a negative electrical permittivity, at least over a part of the predefined frequency range the patch antenna comprises first and second patches separated by the intermediate material, and the first material constitutes a cylinder with a first radius r1, the second material surrounding the first material constitute a cylinder ring with an inner radius r1 and an outer radius r2, the patch antenna is adapted to have two resonances, a first resonance (F 1 ) being governed by the form and size of the patch(es), the second resonance (F 0 ) being dependent on geometrical relations between the first and second different materials, wherein the small size, low-power device, is
  • the present invention provides an alternative scheme for manufacturing a patch antenna for a small size, low power device.
  • the term 'a small size device' is in the present context taken to mean a device whose maximum physical dimension (and thus of an antenna for providing a wireless interface to the device) is smaller than 10 cm such as smaller than 5 cm.
  • a small size device' is a device whose maximum physical dimension is much smaller (e.g. more than 3 times, such as more than 10 times smaller, such as more than 20 times small) than the operating wavelength of a wireless interface to which the antenna is intended ( ideally an antenna for radiation of electromagnetic waves at a given frequency should be larger than or equal to half the wavelength of the radiated waves at that frequency)
  • the wavelength in vacuum is around 35 cm
  • the wavelength in vacuum is around 12cm.
  • a small size device' is a listening device, e.g. a hearing instrument, adapted for being located at the ear or fully or partially in the ear canal of a user.
  • a low power device is in the present context taken to mean an electronic device having a limited power budget, because of one or more of the following restrictions: 1) it has a local energy source, e.g. a battery, 2) it is a relatively small device having only limited available space for a local energy source, 3) it has to operate at low power because of system restrictions (maximum dissipation issues (heat), restrictions to radiated power for the wireless link, etc.).
  • a 'low power device' is a portable device with an energy source of limited duration, e.g. typically of the order of days (e.g one or two days).
  • a 'low power device' is a portable device with an energy source of maximum voltage less than 5 V, such as less than 3 V.
  • the real parts ( ⁇ ' and ⁇ ') of the parameters relate to stored energy in the material and the imaginary parts ( ⁇ " and ⁇ ") of the parameters relate to losses in the material.
  • ⁇ r and ⁇ r are considered
  • the term 'having a negative magnetic permeability and/or a negative electrical permittivity, at least over a part of the predefined frequency range' is in the present context taken to mean that one or both of the the parameters in question (magnetic) permeability ⁇ or (electric) permittivity ⁇ has/have a negative real part at least over a part of the predefined frequency range.
  • the patch antenna comprises a patch and a ground plane, where the intermediate material is located between the patch and the ground plane.
  • the patch antenna comprises first and second patches separated by the intermediate material.
  • the patches are arranged on each side of a constant width layer of the intermediate material.
  • the patches are arranged mirror symmetrically around a plane through the intermediate material.
  • the two patches are both supported by the intermediate material.
  • the first and second patches are identical in form, e.g. circular or polygonal (i.e. having a large degree of rotational symmetry around an axis perpendicular to the patch antenna sandwich structure).
  • the intermediate material is inhomogeneous. In an embodiment, the intermediate material comprises a meta-material.
  • a 'meta-material' is in the present context taken to mean a composite material wherein a two or three dimensional cellular structure of (typically identical) structural elemants is artificially introduced.
  • the meta-material is an anisotropic, e.g. uni-axial material, exhibiting a negative permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity, ⁇ (ENG) or both (DNG) in a frequency range.
  • the patch antenna is adapted to provide that the second resonance Fo is located in a frequency range ([f min ; f max ]) where the permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity ⁇ (ENG) or both (DNG) of the intermediate material are negative.
  • the intermediate material comprises first and second different materials, at least one being a material having a negative magnetic permeability and/or a negative electrical permittivity, at least over a part of the predefined frequency range.
  • a major advantage of an antenna according to embodiments of the invention is that the second resonance frequency can be tailored and made independent of antenna size.
  • the first and second different materials of the intermediate material have a common interface in the form of mutually touching or integrated faces.
  • the second material is arranged along the periphery of the patches and around the first material.
  • the first and second materials have a common interface over an annular (e.g. circular or polygonal) section, e.g. in a slab-like structure where a centrally located body is surrounded by an annular, ring formed body.
  • the common interface constitutes a face perpendicular to the at least one patch, e.g. where the first and second materials are arranged in a layered structure with a common interface.
  • the common face is established as mixture of an annular and a layered arrangement of the two materials.
  • the first material is selected from the group of materials having a negative magnetic permeability (MNG) and/or a negative electrical permittivity (ENG), and the second material is selected from the group of materials, for which the sign of at least one of the magnetic permeability and electrical permittivity is opposite to that or those of the first material.
  • MNG negative magnetic permeability
  • ENG negative electrical permittivity
  • the first material is a meta-material.
  • the second material is a normal dielectric material or a meta-material!
  • the first and second patches and the intermediate material are arranged in a structure having a high degree or rotational symmetry around an axis perpendicular to a face of the first and second patches, such as larger than 2, e.g. larger than or equal to 6, such as larger than or equal to 8, such as larger than or equal to 16, such as full rotational symmetry.
  • the materials, their mutual arrangement, dimensions and form are optimized with respect to radiation and efficiency of the patch antenna.
  • ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical
  • ITU-R ITU Radiocommunication Sector
  • the patch antenna is adapted for transmission or reception in a frequency range around 865 MHz or around 2.4 GHz.
  • the patch antenna is adapted for transmission or reception in the range from 500 MHz to 1 GHz.
  • the patch antenna is adapted to provide that the frequency range ([f min ; f max ]) around the second resonance frequency Fo where the antenna is adapted to transmit or receive and where the permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity ⁇ (ENG) or both (DNG) of the intermediate material is/are negative is larger than 1 MHz, such as larger than 10 MHz, such as larger than 50 MHz, such as larger than 100 MHz.
  • the patch antenna is adapted to provide that the frequency range ([f min ; f max ]) constitute at least 1 % of the resonance frequency Fo, such as at least 5% of Fo, such as at least 10% of Fo.
  • the frequency range ([f min ; f max ]) around the second resonance frequency Fo where the antenna is adapted to transmit or receive and where the permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity ⁇ (ENG) or both (DNG) of the intermediate material is/are negative is defined as the range where the permeability ⁇ (MNG) or permittivity, ⁇ (ENG) is smaller than or equal to -1, such as -2, such as -5.
  • the patch antenna has dimensions that fit small portable devices, e.g. having maximum dimensions less than 25 mm, such as less than 10 mm.
  • the patch antenna is adapted to fit into a hearing instrument adapted to be worn at an ear or in an ear canal of a user.
  • a method of driving a patch antenna as described above in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention is furthermore provided.
  • the method comprises that the first and second patches are driven by a balanced electrical signal.
  • the method comprises that - when the device is in use - one of the patches is coupled to a nearby surface emulating a reference plane.
  • the nearby surface is the skin of a person.
  • a patch antenna as described above in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention or in the claims in a portable communications device, e.g. a SRD, such as an RFID-device, or a listening device, e.g. a hearing instrument is moreover provided.
  • the first and second patches are driven by a balanced electrical signal.
  • one of the patches is coupled to a nearby surface emulating a reference plane.
  • the nearby surface is the skin of a person.
  • a portable communications device is furthermore provided.
  • the portable communications device comprises a patch antenna as described above in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention or in the claims and adapted to drive the patch antenna by a method as described above in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention or in the claims.
  • the portable communications device comprises a battery (e.g. a rechargeable battery) for supplying energy to the device.
  • a battery e.g. a rechargeable battery
  • the portable communications device comprises a hearing instrument.
  • a hearing instrument comprising an input transducer (e.g. a microphone) for converting an input sound to en electric input signal, a signal processing unit for processing the input signal according to a user's needs (e.g. providing a frequency dependent gain) and providing a processed output signal and an output transducer (e.g. a receiver) for converting the processed output signal to an output sound for being presented to a user.
  • the hearing instrument further comprises a wireless interface for communicating with another communication device (e.g.
  • the wireless interface comprising a transceiver coupled to a patch antenna as described above, in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention or in the claims and adapted to drive the patch antenna by a method as described above in the section on mode(s) for carrying out the invention or in the claims.
  • connection or “coupled” as used herein may include wirelessly connected or coupled.
  • the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. The steps of any method disclosed herein do not have to be performed in the exact order disclosed, unless expressly stated otherwise.
  • FIG. 1 shows an example of a patch antenna, the antenna comprising a patch and a ground plane.
  • a patch antenna 10 as shown in FIG. 1 requires a ground plane 3, which is large compared to the patch 2 and therefore typically cannot - due to size limitations - be realized in a small device such as a hearing aid.
  • the patch antenna of FIG. 1 a (side view of antenna with driving circuit) and 1 b (top view of antenna) comprises a circular patch 2 centred relative to a larger circular ground plane 3 both comprising an electrically conductive material such as Cu (or Ag or Au).
  • the patch 2 and the ground plane 3 are separated by an intermediate layer comprising two different materials:
  • An outer ring 4 of a normal dielectric material e.g.
  • a polymer material such as 'FR4' or polytetrafluoroetylen (PTFE), or a material optimized to having a relatively low epsilon (permittivity) and a relatively low loss) and a centrally located part 5 of a meta-material filling out the space not occupied by the normal dielectric materiel.
  • the meta-material and the normal dielectric material could alternatively be mutually switched so that the meta-material constituted the outer ring 4 and the normal dielectric material constituted the remaining central part 5.
  • the meta-material is adapted to have a negative permeability and/or a negative permittivity in at least a part of the intended frequency range of the antenna.
  • the antenna 10 is driven by a transceiver 1 (e.g.
  • the antenna of FIG. 1 comprises a circular patch of a radius r patch of 20 mm and a ground plane of a radius r ground of 30 mm and an intermediate layer of thickness 5.5 mm separating the patch and ground plane.
  • the intermediate layer has a constant thickness and the same form and extension as the patch, i.e. a circular slab of radius r patch .
  • the intermediate lay may have the same extension as the ground plane or an extension between those of the patch and ground plane.
  • the intermediate layer comprises in the embodiment of FIG. 1 a centrally located circular slab of a radius r 1 10 mm of a first material having a negative real part of the permeability in a 1-50 MHz band around 500 MHz.
  • the patch construction of the embodiment of FIG. 1 is circular. It may, alternatively take on other forms appropriate for the application in question, such as polygonal, e.g. a pentagon or a hexagon or a polygon of a larger rotational symmetry.
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a patch antenna according to the invention, the antenna comprising opposed, mirrored patches.
  • FIG. 2 A preferred embodiment of the patch antenna 10 avoiding the use of a ground plane larger than the top patch ( FIG. 1 ) is shown in FIG. 2 .
  • the antenna 10 comprises a mirror 2' of the (top) patch 2 and creates a virtual ground plane 3' between the patches 2, 2'.
  • a balanced signal 11, 11' i.e. the signal 11' applied to the lower patch 2' being the inverse of the signal 11 applied to the top patch 2
  • the symmetry plane will coincide with the virtual ground plane 3' and in that way the benefits and conclusions drawn from the single ended patch above a physical ground plane can be transferred to the balanced implementation.
  • the balanced structure maintains the small dimensions and can fit into a size-critical device like a hearing aid.
  • the patch antenna is adapted for transmission/reception in the frequency range from 500 MHz to 1000 MHz.
  • a construction of the layer supporting the patches comprises an outer ring 4 of a normal dielectric material and a centrally located part 5 of a meta-material having a negative permeability or permittivity in the intended frequency range filling out the space not occupied by the normal dielectric materiel.
  • the materials may be oppositely located.
  • the frequency range is optimized by adapting the (lower) resonance frequency of the patch antenna in dependence of the ratio of the radius r 1 of the central part 5 to the outer radius r 2 of the ring 4.
  • FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a patch antenna according to the invention, the antenna comprising opposed, mirrored asymmetrically coupled patches.
  • the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 is identical to the one shown in FIG. 2 apart from the coupling of one of the patches 2' to the nearby surface 6.
  • a close coupling means that the impedance Zp between the patches 2, 2' is much higher than the impedance Z'gnd between the patch 2' and the nearby surface 6 as illustrated by capacitor C and as shown on the equivalent diagram of FIG. 4 .
  • the same impedance Zgnd between the 'upper' patch 2 and the nearby surface 6 is much larger than the impedance Z'gnd between the ⁇ lower' patch 2' and the nearby surface (abs(Z'gnd) ⁇ abs(Zgnd)).
  • the small dimensions are maintained and a balanced feed of the antenna makes it feasible to couple either side of the patch to the ground plane and equal radiation performance in the two situations can be accomplished due to the full image symmetry of the physical device.
  • FIG. 4 shows an equivalent diagram of the asymmetrical coupling of the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the large difference in the coupling impedances Z'gnd and Zgnd depends basically on the relative positions of the nearby surface 6 and the antenna structure.
  • Z'gnd in FIG 4 represents the impedance of the capacitor C in FIG 3 and Zgnd represents the much larger impedance between the upper patch 2 and the surface 6 in FIG 3 .
  • FIG. 5 shows a schematic illustration of a meta-material for use in a patch antenna according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 shows a patch antenna as also shown and discussed above in connection with FIG. 1 .
  • the numbers on the figures correspond and the only difference is that the normal dielectric material 4 is extended from the circumference of the patch in FIG 1 to the circumference of the ground plane in FIG 5 .
  • FIG. 5a shows a transparent schematic top view of an embodiment of a patch antenna according to the invention.
  • the centrally located meta-material 5 is shown to comprise an array of identical structural elements 51.
  • structural elements 51 are (planar) coil formed elements, comprising wires of a conductive (metallic) material.
  • the (second) resonance frequency Fo of the antenna is determined by the structure and arrangement of these elements (their 3D-pattern, their density (mutual distance), number of coil turns, width of wires, distance between wires, wire length, properties of the metal (including its thickness and resistivity) and the electromagnetic properties of the surrounding material, e.g. the dielectric material (including its permittivity), etc. (cf. e.g. [Bilotti et al., 2007] for multiple split ring and spiral structural elements).
  • the material can e.g. be manufactured by a planar sandwiching technique by embedding an array of coils in a layer of a typically dielectric substrate, e.g. a printed circuit board (PCB) within a specific area (e.g.
  • d se 0.5 ⁇ a , such as dse ⁇ 0.1 ⁇ a , such as dse ⁇ 0.05 ⁇ a , such as dse ⁇ 0.01 ⁇ a , such as dse ⁇ 0.005 ⁇ a , such as dse ⁇ 0.001 ⁇ a .
  • a number of identical layers (such as 2 or 3 or more, e.g. 5-10, e.g.
  • FIG. 5b and 5c show schematic side and perspective views of the patch antenna.
  • a meta-material for use in connection with the present invention can e.g. be manufactured as described in [Bilotti et al., 2007].
  • Technologies suitable for manufacturing meta-materials include planar technologies, such as semiconductor or PCB technologies (using alternate masking and deposition steps) and/or combinations of other deposition techniques (e.g. plasma or vacuum deposition or sputtering).
  • FIG. 6 shows corresponding schematic frequency dependence of real and imaginary parts of permeability ⁇ ( FIG. 6a ) for a first material and reflection coefficient or return loss RL ( FIG. 6b ) of a patch antenna according to the invention.
  • FIG. 6a shows the real and imaginary parts of the magnetic permeability for a material having a negative magnetic permeability in a frequency range between a minimum frequency f min and a maximum frequency f max located on each side of a resonance frequency Fo of the antenna.
  • this has the effect that the patch antenna has two resonances (cf. FIG.
  • a first resonance F 1 being governed by the form and size of the patch(es) (natural resonance)
  • a second resonance Fo being dependent on geometrical relations between the first and second material (e.g. on the ratio of radii of first and second materials in a circular (annular) arrangement or the two materials, the first material constituting a cylinder with a first radius r 1 , the second material surrounding the first material constituting a cylinder ring with an inner radius r 1 and an outer radius r 2 ).
  • the real part of the magnetic permeability Re[ ⁇ ] is negative between fmin and f max and positive outside this range.
  • the second resonance Fo is located between 500 MHz and 800 MHz, e.g. around 500 MHz.
  • the scale of FIG. 6a is such that the indicated levels ⁇ + and ⁇ - are of the order of +5 to +10 and -5 to -10, respectively, so that the absolute of the peak values of the real and imaginary parts are between 10 and 20.
  • FIG. 6b schematically shows return loss RL vs. frequency f and illustrating the first and second resonances F 1 and F 0 .
  • F 1 is 3-5 times Fo.
  • F 1 is in the GHz-range, e.g. between 1 GHz and 5 GHz, e.g. around 2.5 GHz.
  • the scale factor RL- in FIG. 6b is of the order of -20 dB to -40 dB.

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  1. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe mit einer Patch-Antenne (10), die zum Übertragen oder Empfangen elektromagnetischer Strahlung in einem vordefinierten Frequenzbereich eingerichtet ist und einen ersten Patch (2) aufweist, der ein elektrisch leitfähiges Material beinhaltet und eine obere und unter Fläche hat, wobei der erste Patch auf seiner unteren Fläche durch ein Zwischenmaterial gestützt wird, und wobei das Zwischenmaterial ein erstes (5) und ein anderes zweites (4) Material aufweist, von denen mindestens eines ein Material mit einer zumindest über einen Teil des vordefinierten Frequenzbereiches negativen magnetischen Permeabilität µ und/oder einer negativen elektrischen Permittivität ε ist und wobei das erste Material einen Zylinder mit einem ersten Radius r1 bildet, und das zweite Material, welches das erste Material umgibt, einen Zylinderring mit einem inneren Radius r1 und einem äußeren Radius r2 bildet, wobei die Patch-Antenne ausgebildet ist, zwei Resonanzen zu haben, wobei eine erste Resonanz (F1) durch die Form und Größe des/der Patches bestimmt wird und die zweite Resonanz (F0) abhängig von geometrischen Beziehungen zwischen dem ersten und dem zweiten, anderen Material ist, wobei das Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe ein Hörgerät ist, das dazu ausgebildet ist an dem Ohr oder komplett oder teilweise in dem Gehörgang eines Nutzers angeordnet zu werden und eine maximale physische Abmessung hat, die mehr als dreimal kleiner als die Betriebswellenlänge einer kabellosen Schnittstelle der Patch-Antenne ist, und wobei die Patch-Antenne einen zweiten Patch (2') aufweist, der ein elektrisch leitfähiges Material mit einer oberen und einer unteren Fläche beinhaltet, wobei die Patch-Antenne gegenüberliegende, gespiegelte Patches aufweist, denen ein symmetrisches Signal (11, 11') zugeführt wird, wobei der zweite Patch auf seiner oberen Fläche durch das Zwischenmaterial gestützt wird, das eine eigentliche Grundebene zwischen dem ersten Patch und dem zweiten Patch bereitstellt.
  2. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 1, wobei das erste Material ein Feld von Strukturelementen aufweist und die zweite Resonanz (F0) durch die Struktur und die Anordnung der Strukturelemente und durch die elektromagnetischen Eigenschaften des umgebenden Materials bestimmt wird.
  3. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 2, mit dem ersten (5) und zweiten (4) Material, wobei das Erste aus der Gruppe von Materialien mit einer negativen magnetischen Permeabilität (MNG) und/oder einer negativen elektrischen Permittivität (ENG) ausgewählt ist, und das Zweite aus der Gruppe von Materialien ausgewählt ist, für die das Vorzeichen von mindestens einer von der magnetischen Permeabilität und der elektrischen Permittivität entgegensetzt zu dem des ersten Materials ist.
  4. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 3, wobei das erste Material (5) ein Metamaterial und/oder das zweite (4) Material ein normales dielektrisches Material oder ein Metamaterial ist.
  5. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, wobei die Patches (2, 2') auf jeder Seite einer Schicht konstanter Breite des Zwischenmaterials (4, 5) angeordnet sind.
  6. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, wobei das zweite Material entlang der Peripherie der Patches um das erste Material angeordnet ist.
  7. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 2, wobei die Strukturelemente planare, spulengeformte Elemente sind, die Drähte aus einem leitfähigen Material aufweisen.
  8. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 7, wobei die Struktur und die Anordnung der Strukturelemente die Anzahl von Spulenwindungen, die Breite der Drähte, den Abstand zwischen den Drähten, die Länge der Drähte und/oder die Eigenschaften des leitfähigen Materials aufweist.
  9. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, wobei der erste und zweite Patch (2, 2') und das Zwischenmaterial (4, 5) in einer Struktur angeordnet sind, die einen hohen Grad an Rotationssymmetrie um eine senkrecht zu einer Fläche des ersten und zweiten Patches verlaufenden Achse hat, wie etwas größer als 2, z.B. größer oder gleich 6, wie etwa größer oder gleich 8, wie etwa größer oder gleich 16, wie etwa eine komplette Rotationssymmetrie.
  10. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 9, wobei das Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe einen Eingangswandler zum Umwandeln eines Eingangstones in ein elektrisches Eingangssignal, eine Signalverarbeitungseinheit zum Verarbeiten des Eingangssignals gemäß Bedürfnissen des Nutzers und zum Bereitstellen eines verarbeiteten Ausgangssignals, und einen Ausgangswandler zum Umwandeln des verarbeiteten Ausgangssignals in einen Ausgangston zum Ausgeben an einen Nutzer aufweist.
  11. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 10, wobei das Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe eine kabellose Schnittstelle zum Kommunizieren mit einem anderen Kommunikationsgerät aufweist, wobei die kabellose Schnittstelle einen mit der Patch-Antenne gekoppelten Transceiver aufweist.
  12. Niedrigleistungsgerät geringer Größe gemäß Anspruch 11, wobei das andere Kommunikationsgerät ein Mobiltelefon ist.
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